I recently saw a post that showed that Scarlet Johannsen said Afrikaans was dead. She is South African and I know she did have some tough issues in life, but I too know something about South Africa and probably some of the only parts of SA that are truly safe or at least reasonably safe are the places where Afrikaans is spoken. My experience is that these people are endlessly reliable... right there with Australians even though they too are having issues. We Americans can learn from them how not to let things get so far out of control that getting control is out of the question
From a recommendation here I bought the book "A Handful of Hard Men" About the Rhodesian SAS during the bush wars. Damn what a bunch of hard core MF's. Great book.